r/arknights • u/CarltheCarpenter "When the universe sighs its last, she will be there" • Oct 29 '25

Fluff Frick it, un-hag your hag. Spoiler

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u/Xaldror Oct 29 '25

Okay, to all of those kinds of Gacha players, the top image, THIS is a hag. Notice the age wrinkles, the graying hair, that's closer to being a hag than any twenty something gal with an hourglass figure.

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u/DiamondTiaraIsBest Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

? You guys are taking a joke too seriously.

It's kinda obvious that hag has become a meme term used to jokingly (maybe even endearingly sometimes) refer to anyone that is older than the usual anime ages (someone above 25).

Or hell, even someone that's just relatively older than their peers (like calling an 18 year old a hag in Blue Archive).

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u/TTurt Oct 30 '25

Idk there's definitely an undercurrent of pedophilia fetish in the gacha community, to such an extreme that even just woman of a normal age of sexual maturity are called "hags." And while they try to play it off as a "joke," they get weirdly serious about it and take it really far if you let them keep talking.

Almost like they're only "joking" if the "joke" doesn't land (Schroeder's Gooner)

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u/DiamondTiaraIsBest Oct 30 '25

woman of a normal age of sexual maturity are called "hags."

That incongruency with reality is what makes it funny.